# Amputations involving bone loss at Burt Lumber Company
> OSHA SIR `2024087132` · 8/5/2024 · WASHINGTON, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations involving bone loss
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
- **Source:** Stationary sawing machinery stationary  n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Burt Lumber Company
- **Location:** 911 GREENSBORO HIGHWAY, WASHINGTON, GEORGIA, 30673
- **NAICS:** 321113
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was maintaining lumber stacks when the outfeed chip head jammed with a block of wood. While unjamming it, their right hand contacted the spinning head on the chip and saw (CNS) machine and they sustained amputation of their ring and little fingers.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*